Re: Add a configure option for NATIVE_FULL_AOT?

[Arthur Miller]

tomas@tuxteam.de writes:

> On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 02:06:39PM +0200, Arthur Miller wrote:
>> tomas@tuxteam.de writes:
>> 
>> > On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 11:17:57PM +0200, Arthur Miller wrote:
>> >> <tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> > on it you've got your shining new $10K Linux laptop), .el wouldn't go
>> > there.
>> Is there a laptop that costs $10k? What is deal with that? Cover made of
>> gold? :-)
>
> There used to be [1], but alas, the times, the times ;-)
"These units could also record PAL and NTSC signals with onboard
composite connectors, and the batteries contained internal processors to
regulate power usage for optimized battery longevity. "

Hey! You could watch TV on them, and that in both Europe and US, back in
1994! Of course if you were a dev travelign the seas you should be able
to watch that footbal game whereever you are; crucial back in time where
no company was streaming matches on the net! If there was an
application that could show that signal of course. And you were the only
one to carry around a webcam, back in time when nobody had one. Maybe not so
many to talk to, but one could make selfies while working.

"cursor driven GUI-based BIOS"

Whauh, 40 years before its time. Now when mouse in bios become
mainstream (in UEFI bios), I have yet to see the real benefit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_ThinkPad_Power_Series#/media/File:IBM_RS6000_860_laptop.jpg

Hah! CDE on Solaris, I still remember that background paper as if it was
yesterday! :).


>> I actually run emacs from source dir. I compile it every few days, so it
>> does not really make sense to me to run make-install and copy over
>> everything to some other directory every now and then.
>
> Hm. I do, too, but I always do "make install".

I don't understand, why make install if you run from the source dir?
What is the benefit?